Countries with the most and least online fraud

The e-commerce industry has grown into a trillion-dollar marketplace, and with all that money changing hands, the risk of fraudulent activity increases. Forter, a company that operates an e-commerce fraud prevention platform, analyzed over a million online transactions over the course of 2014 to identify the countries which are the safest and the most risky for fraudulent activity.

The study also revealed fraud rates in Android are more than twice as high as in iOS — swindlers tend to attack via Android rather than via iOS when using mobile, since android systems are easier to manipulate. These are the countries with the most and least risk for Internet fraud:

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Most risk of fraud:

1. Indonesia

Above, an Indonesian police officer is posted at a local bank's ATM in Nusa Dua at the resort Island of Bali in 2010, following fraud cases where customers were victimized by syndicates with the use of data-capturing devices illegally installed in bank machines.

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2. Venezuela

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3. South Africa

Above, a woman passes an advertisement for pick n' pay online shopping in Soweto, South Africa.

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4. Brazil

Employees work at the startup company Hotel Urbano in Rio de Janeiro. Hotel Urbano, an online hotel booking service, got $52 million last year in the nation's biggest venture capital funding of the period. Brazilian startups are reaping the benefits of a global venture capital community that's hunting for markets with large, untapped bases of Internet-using consumers.

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5. Romania

Above, a man sits in his horse-drawn carriage in the middle of a street in the city of Zimnicea, Romania, where life in the small Romanian port town is defined by poverty, corruption and remarkably, a yearning for communist days.

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Least risk of fraud:

1. Denmark

Above, the reception area at the headquarters of Lego A/S in Billund, Denmark.

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Least risk of fraud:

2. New Zealand

Above, people wait in line on Queen Street before the opening of New Zealand's first Topshop and TopMan store March 12 in Auckland, New Zealand.

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